Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:59:41 -0600 From: "John Nielsen" <john@jnielsen.net> To: <ports@freebsd.org> Cc: <perky@freebsd.org> Subject: status of spamass-milter port Message-ID: <030701c22bab$aac53c90$0900a8c0@max>
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Due to my own experience and a recent thread on -stable, I'm wondering about the status of the spamass-milter port. I have a FreeBSD (4.6-RELEASE-p2) mailserver that runs the stock sendmail. I have also installed and am running spamd (p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.30) and spamass-milter (spamass-milter-0.1.1_1), both installed from the ports. Much of the time it works as expected. However, any time I get several messages at once (or in a very short period of time), the spam filtering hangs (and I think the problem is with the milter, but I wouldn't swear to it). For me this happens regularly at 3:00 am when the "daily run output" from some other machines comes in. Others have reported the same problem and some workarounds (see the recent thread on -stable with the subject "Hang problem with spamass-milter..."). So, my questions are these: Is this a known issue that's being worked on already? If so, is this particular problem in any way unique to FreeBSD? Does one of our fine port maintainers have any correspondence with the (new) maintainer of this project? Is there a new official version of spamass-milter forthcoming that addresses this issue (and presumably others)? The current workaround seems to be to build the latest sources with patch 349 from GNU's spamass-milter project page. If it's not already being worked on, what additional information should I include in a PR? Obviously, it would be a great improvement if one could install the port and have it "just work" without futzing around with manually applying patches. The problem is most likely in the main source code, so a FreeBSD-specific patch may not be the best way to go. A possible stop-gap solution might be to add something like a "WITH_INTERIM_PATCHES=yes" to the port's Makefile that would fetch and apply the relevant (GNU) patches before building the port. Programming is not my forte, but I'd be more than happy to help with testing, etc. And I do plan to file a PR unless someone tells me it's a bad idea. :) Comments appreciated. Please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed to -ports. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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